Hello you very wonderful and intelligent people that make up this forum, i truly hope you have had a wonderful weekend and that you are happy and healthy.

I am very interested in using Bisq to purchase Bitcoins, which is a decentralized, blockchain-powered cryptocurrency exchange. I am wanting to remain as anonymous as possible and please wondered would it be okay to use a VPN to mask my real IP address when using Bisq please, would this still work please?

Lastly i have heard about people setting up there own nodes on Bisq, would this make the transaction more anonymous or is this basically to keep the transaction more secure so you do not get scammed please? The transaction i am making is only $40 would my own node not my required please?

If anyone kindly had any thoughts on the two questions above i would be immensely thankful and highly appreciative for your support with this. My heart would go out to you and i would be so thankful.

Thank you very much for any support you can give. I truly hope you have a very happy and wonderful week ahead. Sending you lots of good wishes and i truly hope you have a wonderful and amazing life, for you, family and friends. With my every best wishes.